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Steve Small

Steve is a freelance director, facilitator, teacher, mentor and producer who has worked in Scottish Theatre for the last 20 years. Before embarking on a freelance career he was Associate Director for Scottish Youth Theatre, Head of Education at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Associate Director, Education & Community, at Dundee Rep.

Whilst at the Lyceum he established the Lyceum Education Department and founded the award winning Lyceum Youth Theatre directing a number of productions that toured throughout Scotland.

Since leaving Dundee Rep he has worked on a range of freelance projects with, amongst others, NTS, RSAMD and the BBC.

Steve founded Strange Town in 2006 to fill the gap he perceived in provision for young people interested in theatre. Since then he has co-directed and produced two shows for Strange Town – “One night in Strange Town” and “Chill”.

His work has taken him to many interesting places including Japan and he has recently returned from Norway.

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Ruth Hollyman

Ruth is an Edinburgh based freelance drama worker and writer who has been working with children and young people for 17 years in England, Scotland and Japan.

She moved from Birmingham to Edinburgh in 1992 with her own small scale theatre company which performed new plays and ran Theatre-in-Education projects. She was also part of the opening team at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, where she established the Education Programme for schools. While in Japan she set up a children’s theatre company and worked in television.

During the last eight years, she has worked with macRobert Arts Centre, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Scottish Youth Theatre, Perth Theatre, Stirling Youth Theatre, Borderline Youth Theatre, and Dundee Rep. As well as her work with Strange Town, she currently directs, writes plays and runs weekly workshops at the Lyceum Youth Theatre.

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